Improvement in washing-machines



R. MURPHY.

WASHING-MACHINE. N 182,69Z, Patented Sept. 26, 1876.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT MURPHY, OF OANISTEO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENTIN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,692, dated September 26, 1876; application filed June 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT MURPHY, of (Janisteo, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. a The object of my invention is to Wash clothes by placing them into a water-tight cask, A, with hot water and soap, and then with which to lift the piece to place. The pieces are fastened together with two hinges, M, or left separate,'Figure 2. The head is beveled at the edge, so as to exactly fit the inside of the cask at the top. It is put in place by folding it together, Figs. 2 and 4, and putting it inside the cask, and placing one side in position anil raising the other side to place by drawing it up by the staple h, and then placing the end of the 16"?! H, Fig. 3, in the staple IL and prying over the end of the staves.

I claim as my invention---- The head B, in two pieces, 01 d, the semicircular pieces of iron with the spurs g g, and button F and the staple h, for the purpose specified.

ROBERT MURPHY. Witnesses:

ELI SoULE, W. P. T0131), 

